let
the tenderness be blue tonight
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The
year when Joke visited Africa for the first time, she was invited to
join the usual duo between HA!Man and Port Elizabeth guitarist Joe van
der Linden. Only a real poet could have pulled of what she did that
night. Flowing effortlessly with the two musicians, poem after poem
came off her lips, delivering lines like the title poem's: let the tenderness
be blue tonight - an apt description for the synergies evoked through
this collaboration. It is a rare moment, captured to be listened to
again and again and again. From "layer after layer" to "something
in my mind" to the cheeky "kcheewck", the Dutch "hier
staan ik" and the French "mais quand on chante", she
bares her mind and soul, carried along by Joe's solid musical freedoms
and the HA!Man's trademark cello, keyboard, voice and wot nots. Let
the Tenderness be Blue tonight brings both these: the vulnerability
of such delivered creativity and the goose-bumpy ease of the flow of
freedom.
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